Odd-ball, Weird or Funny, but Spermicide Coke Wins Alternative Nobel Prize

Odd-ball green news it may be but Coke has been discovered to be an effective spermicide, which may be good for the environment; and for that very elaborate effort of discovery, a woman’s sexuality expert has just been awarded an alternative Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

Weird or wacky, you might say, but rumor actually has it that Snopes.com might soon bring down this link that debunked the long suspected (was it an urban legend until the Ig Nobel Prize?) but now confirmed sperm killing effects of the famous Coca Cola soft drink.

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Deborah Anderson, a Boston University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and colleagues, Sharee A. Umpierre of the University of Puerto Rico, Joseph A. Hill of The Fertility Centers of New England, shared the 2008 Ig Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their discovery.

Oddly, Chuang-Ye Hong of Taipei Medical University (Taiwan), C.C. Shieh, P. Wu, and B.N. Chiang (all of Taiwan) shared the prize with them for contradicting coke’s spermicidal properties.

Yes, don’t throw out those birth control pills just yet. Although Coke may have limited spermicidal effects, the Taiwan research team found even an hour after jumping in the soda bath, many of those little guys were still swimming happily around. Ergo, the most effective use of soda as a spermicide is still as a drink to wash down the birth control pill.

Now, if Coke as a contraceptive or a birth control douche drink isn’t weird enough, the Ig Nobel Prizes also reveal that Shakira, the Colombian diva, might have been right about gyrations from the middle.

University of New Mexico professors, Geoffrey Miller, Joshua Tybur and Brent Jordan, won the Economics prize for discovering that a professional lap dancer’s ovulatory cycle affects her tip earnings! So hips don’t lie is true?

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